Nexus Earth Newsletter January 2018

Happy New Year and welcome to the first Nexus newsletter of 2018! This last year was an amazing time of positive growth. In 2017 many things were accomplished and the Community has become stronger than ever. We would like to thank everyone for all your hard work and the dedication it took to bring these accomplishments to life and we are looking forward to many great new achievements in 2018.

December was another fast paced month for the Nexus core team: We have been organizing, creating processes and preparing for the next wave of new core team members. We also released official news about the Vector partnership which was a great step forward for our ambitions to bring cryptocurrency to space.

The highlights of 2017 include the Nexus conference, which was a huge success, the announcement of the world’s first three dimensional chain, the formation of a non-profit dedicated to the betterment of Nexus, the official announcement of the partnership with Vector to bring cryptocurrency to space, and various other accomplishments that set the stage to take Nexus to the next level.

In 2018 we are planning to further strengthen and expand the core team, release key new updates to the code base, increase Community transparency and engagement, develop enhanced strategies to propel us into the future, and continue the overall task of bringing our vision for Nexus to reality. Nexus is here to change the world for the better and we are very thankful to be amalgamating such an amazing team to help us along the way.

Once again we are very thankful for the support of the Community as a whole. Without your support this would not be possible and we plan on doing great things in 2018.

Here is a brief update from the development team via Nexus Founder, Colin Cantrell:

Brian Smith and his team at Eidetic Mind have been heading up the development on the Nexus Interface while Colin has been progressing steadily on core. A new wallet was released last week version 0.2.3.4 which smoothed out the network and included some changes to the RPC. We have also been actively reaching out to find more coders to continue to improve the core and speed up development on the run up to the Tritium release.

PR NewsWire & Bitcoin Magazine:

Vector and Nexus Team Up to Bring Cryptocurrency to Space

On December 20th, 2017 PR NewsWire reports: “Vector, a nanosatellite launch company comprised of new-space and enterprise software industry veterans from SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, Sea Launch and VMware, today announced a partnership with Nexus to host its decentralized cryptocurrency in space using Vector’s GalacticSky Software-Defined Satellite platform. Nexus will be the first company to deploy a cryptocurrency on a satellite orbiting the earth.” The Newswire went on to describe the use-cases the collaboration will provide for both parties including highlighting “the partnership allows future Vector customers to pay for launches using Nexus’ cryptocurrency, NXS”.

“With Bitcoin’s valuation at an all-time high, people are beginning to accept cryptocurrency as a real form of payment, but there are still problems with storage and ownership,” said Colin Cantrell, Founder and Chief Architect of Nexus. “The capabilities provided by the GalacticSky platform, combined withthe flexibility of Vector’s launch model, bring us one step closer to accomplishing our mission of providing the world with a decentralized currency that can be accessed virtually anywhere, anytime.”

An article in Bitcoin Magazine went on to elaborate on what Nexus aims to do in the future:

“The future of Nexus combines satellites, ground-based mesh networks, and blockchain technology to facilitate the formation of a decentralized internet,” notes the joint press release. “Nexus is building the foundation to broadcast the blockchain and Nexus Network from space,” adds the Nexus website.

Shortly after the announcement of the partnership, Vector released these “First look” drawings:

Colin Karewa Forbes is a self-proclaimed Evolutionary Businessman & Educator. He began his career with Ernst & Young CPA’s, and has since worked in accounting and executive management teams for various public and private, profit and non-profit enterprises for more than 30 years. His dedicated intention to his own personal evolution combined with his business experience led him to live and work on six of the seven continents in the world and have uniquely qualified him to walk at the forefront of movements which advance the evolution of humanity. The Nexus Embassy is such a movement and his passion and expertise will be dedicated full force to the harmonization and success of this amazing evolutionary endeavor!

John Saviano, Graphic Design:

John graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While earning his degree in finance he simultaneously began to pursue his passion for art, design and music which led to establishing his own creative studio. With over 15 years of experience providing graphic design, web design, branding and marketing services to B2B and B2C clients, he has developed a versatile design aesthetic that can adapt to any industry. John has worked on projects for Britney Spears, Sony, BMG, Interscope, and Bergdorf Goodman. His art has been shown in Marshall Fields Look Gallery (now Macy’s), and his t-shirt designs have been worn by Fergie and David Guetta, ultimately leading to a t-shirt collaboration with David Guetta. With his desire to help change the world, Nexus is the perfect home for John, providing him the opportunity to fully utilize his knowledge of finance combined with his business and creative skill sets.

Tools we Love:

At Nexus, we’re continuously impressed with the innate intelligence and creativity of the people in our community—it’s a pleasure to work with you every day. We’re adding a new feature to the newsletter where we’ll be featuring different tools every month. They are tools that help our people run their lives pristinely, from investment trackers, to ways to organize and get inspired. Please give us your feedback on your favorite tools for crypto, blockchain and those that have simply make your life more amazing.

Disclaimer: These are products recommended by the Nexus Community at Large. The Nexus Embassy will never give investment advice.

1) Fiatleak:

Category: Crypto Education

Website: fiatleek.com

Fiatleak has created a website where you can view all the individual Bitcoin (BTC) investments as they flow into the market, by country. We love watching which countries are most active at any given time or when larger streams of instruments are flooding in. It also has a bell that you can set to alert you when individual BTC investments come in over a certain limit.

2) BitLy

Website: Bitly.com

Category: Business Tools

BitLy is a handy business tool for shortening your web links. It shortens links down to a few letters and numbers handy for things like twitter and newsletters (see examples in this newsletter). Not only can you shorten links with BitLy, you can customize them. The site also provides valuable tracking tools useful for observing things about your audience like how many clicked the link per day and what countries they are clicking from.

3) Coin Tracking

Category: Crypto Organization

Website: cointracking.info

We all know that tracking crypto trades and investments is a hot topic as the tax laws and regulations continue to be put in place around this newly evolving industry. Investment Tracker is a way to keep track of all your trades across different exchanges in one place. Very handy when it’s time to pay your taxes!

4) Ray Dalio’sPrinciples:

Category: Motivation and Organization

Website: Principales.com (audio available on audible.com)

Ray Dalio founded Bridegwater Associates in 1975, which, according to Fortune magazine, grew into the fifth most important private company in the US. Dalio has also been named to Time’s 100 most influential people in the world. How did he get there? He discovered a set of principles that have led to Bridgewater’s highly effective culture, which he describes as “an idea meritocracy that strives to achieve meaningful work and meaningful relationships through transparency.” Not only have these specific principles inspired many in our community, but they have inspired the discovery of our own principles that have served us endlessly.

Community Contributions:

Alex El-Nemer: RightBTC

Alex El-Nemer played an instrumental role in getting Nexus listed on RightBTC. Alex will also be representing Nexus at the Dubai Blockchain conference in January, continuing his efforts of building Nexus’s presence in the United Emirates. Thanks for all of your efforts in the many Nexus projects you’re involved in Alex.

April Bunje (Chambermaid on Slack): General Contributions

The Nexus team would like to give a special thank you to April Bunje for her continued and ongoing involvement in assisting Nexus with the completion of so many projects. Great work April.

Nick Earl (bibbityjibbity on Slack): Support Channel

We’d like to give a very big thank you to Nick who has helped many of the Nexus Community members within the support channel. He has also taken time to write instructions on how to download the Nexus wallet and troubleshoot it once it is in use. Thank you Nick!

Alberic and Bugsdx (Slack names): Translators

Thank you to Aleberic and Bugsdx for their great work of late on translating the FAQ and white paper and helping us to grow our international education of Nexus.

Closing:

We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season with their family and friends and an incredible start to the New Year. We’d like to thank everyone from the Community for an incredible 2017 and look forward to changing the world together in 2018!